Saragossa Opening
A00 1. c3
Black scores 49.5% here across 1,069 club games — but the 7.2% who answer e6 score 39.6%, 10 points worse.
What Black actually plays here
Across 1,069 games from a Lichess-derived book of club play, Black scores 49.5% in this position. These are the replies people choose, and how each one works out.
| Reply | Games | Share | Black scores | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| e5 | 393 | 36.8% | 47.5% | holds up |
| d5 | 297 | 27.8% | 51.2% | holds up |
| e6 | 77 | 7.2% | 39.6% | below the line |
| Nf6 | 66 | 6.2% | 57.6% | holds up |
| c5 | 64 | 6.0% | 59.4% | holds up |
| g6 | 48 | 4.5% | 51.0% | holds up |
| c6 | 38 | 3.6% | 43.4% | below the line |
| d6 | 31 | 2.9% | 48.4% | holds up |
"Below the line" means the reply scores at least three points worse than the position does overall. Replies played fewer than 25 times are left out: the sample is too small to read.
Is this costing you anything?
A table of averages cannot tell you whether you go wrong here — only your own games can. Opening Leak Lab reads your Chess.com or Lichess archive, finds the decisions you repeat, and checks each one against this book and a bundled Stockfish.
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